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Artist: Courtney Johnson | Location: Wilmington, NC

City of Light

City of Light is an abstracted aerial night view of Paris in cliché-verre. French for glass negative, cliché-verre is a photo-painting hybrid process. The work in this series begins as a hand-painted image on glass in negative, which is then scanned, enlarged, and printed digitally. Historically employed during times of change, this rare photographic process is ideal for depicting the world’s transition from landscape to cityscape as well as from analog to digital.

City of Light is part of "Cycle of Cities III: Rebirth," one in a nine-part series chronicling the rise and fall of cities through a universal myth cycle. "Cycle of Cities III: Rebirth" examines the structure, depiction, function, and evolution of cities through shape, pattern, and layering, and expands the possibilities of photography, painting, and digital technology.

Artist Biography

Courtney Johnson

Wilmington, NC

Courtney Johnson’s work has been featured in 13 solo exhibitions and over sixty group exhibitions in the last five years. Her work is included in numerous collections including the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; University of Central Florida; Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale; Lowe Art Museum; and FOTOMUSEO, the National Museum of Photography in Bogotá, Colombia where Johnson’s work was featured in the 4th International Biennale of Photography: FOTOGRÁFICA BOGOTÁ 2011. Johnson earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts with Honors in Photography and Imaging from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, and her Master of Fine Arts in Studio Art from the University of Miami. She was born in Houston in 1982 and has lived in Malaysia, New Jersey, Tennessee, New York, Virginia, Florida, and California, and currently lives and works in Wilmington, NC where she is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of North Carolina Wilmington.

ArtFields is a charitable program and event sponsored by Lake City Creative Alliance, which is a federally-recognized Section 501(c)(3) organization located in Lake City, South Carolina. Its mission is to enhance the area schools and greater community through both creative and audience development by fostering a culturally-rich environment, connecting our communities through the arts, integrating arts into the education system, and serving as the lead in cultivating and advancing our region's creative economy.